Results 20,241-20,260 of 34,779 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Senior people. I am not going to name the officials-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, I am talking about senior officials, not the clerk to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: In the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: For the moment, I am not going to name an official by name. That is standard practice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Let us use his title. Was it the Clerk of the Dáil?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, let me clarify. I am not identifying the person here today but I am making it clear that senior officials, certainly not anybody in this room, made it very clear to me that if the wording was not to the satisfaction of what the House – they - felt was safe; that they had, under Standing Orders – I have not checked the Standing Orders - the authority to take our draft...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Senior officials. I took it as par for the course in my job as Chairman to deal with that and move on. I am now putting on record that I think the fact we did our work has strengthened the committee, despite people's efforts to undermine us. We are a stronger committee for it. With regard to NAMA, I have served on this committee for a couple of terms and, during those terms and perhaps...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That was personal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: To clarify, I have asked the clerk to outline for us whatever Standing Orders are available to people in the House regarding committee reports - I am not aware of every Standing Order - and the procedures in place whereby reports or draft reports can be referred to the CPP. I would like that to be summarised and presented to us in the afternoon. It may be something we were not fully aware...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have to leave in ten minutes for a short period and the Vice-Chairman will take the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: They would probably say it was to protect the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will get to the bottom of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is not the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. First, it was not a threat. He was apprising me of the Standing Orders of the House - that the CPP has the authority to consider any draft report. I take it the official was, to use his words, "trying to be helpful" to me by explaining to me Standing Orders of which I may not have been aware. It was not a threat, but it means ultimately – which I regard as a far more serious...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was in the context of the final drafting of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, if the Deputy remembers for the last two or three meetings, we had the legal advisers here who suggested textual changes where we were concentrating overly on individuals rather than offices. It was in the general context of the advice we were receiving from the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser, which was assisting us in the final drafting of the report. They made no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am not sure. I cannot answer that now; we will get the answer. The answer to that question on procedures, which I have never encountered, is in the House.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the name of the person, but it was not the chairman who said that to me. I did refer previously to a conversation with the chairman of NAMA. The context of the conversation on the issue was that some people are suggesting there was an issue of the cost. He was not saying it was going to happen. He did not indicate that to me, he said it was a possibility, I did not take it...